U.S. Office of Personnel Management - Ensuring the Federal Government has an effective civilian workforce
Performance Management
August 2000
The Performance Management Mailbag
Our mail includes often-asked questions that we'll be sharing with our readers in this recurring feature.
| Q. | For purposes of giving length of service certificates and/or pins, what constitutes Government service? For example, does it include military service? |
| A. | Agencies give length of service certificates in recognition of years of service in the Government of the United States. Therefore, agencies might consider crediting both civilian and military service when computing eligibility for career service recognition, but that decision is left to each agency. As an example of crediting all Federal service, an employee who has worked for the Government for 5 years and already had 5 years of honorable military service before being hired could be eligible for a length of service certificate recognizing the full 10 years of Federal service. Note: For individual employees, Government service as defined for purposes of issuing length of service certificates is not necessarily identical to "creditable service" used to calculate eligibility for things such as leave accumulation or retirement. |
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